one thing that is very important to this discussion 'cause it's very important
health care reform which was as we all know ted kennedy's
uh... as he put it because of his life right
and uh...
and that's who's gonna replace
now it is low but irony
uh... in massachusetts democrats passed the law
saying that if uh...
the senators to be replaced
that you need all the special election
a hundred and forty five days after the person needs to be replaced
and that the people decided not to govern
uh... why did they do that one
uh... i think it makes sense
i don't like it to the governors uh...
just get the randomly pick who's gonna be the next senators are very democratic
uh... that happen a lot
uh... recently because joe biden brocco bomb et cetera when they moved to the
white house they had to be replaced red obviously
dramatic issues in illinois
with google glory which was going to take
it's just not the right way to do things if you ask me
vac senator feingold has i'll put together a bill bipartisan bill
a truly bipartisan one
this is that we should be special elections nationwide anytime a center
needs to be replaced now i agree with that and apparently democrats agree with
that mess part of the reason they pass it
a massachusetts but
let's keep it real
the other reason they pass it is because
john kerry was running for president and all four
and if he had one he would need to be replaced
and the governor of the time of massachusetts
was william weld
a republican
so the democratic legislature was like here
we had a better idea so the republican appointing
the senator why don't we have a special election
now those hunky-dory back then
but now
because of the bill the democrats passed
it would mean that we wouldn't get a new senator for massachusetts until january
of next year
now we want to get health care reform
done within this year i don't know what some people are talking about
deadlines for bipartisan compromise of september fifteenth solely that
legislation go to the senate and the house
by the end of the year
ted kennedy would have been the sixty s well
could not be morality
and it could not have come at a worse time in some ways now
for other political reasons you make an argument that it's come out and
interesting time that might be helpful
for this cause that ted kennedy carrots so much about what about that a little
later
now the democrats are typical
because all the sunday like uh... now though in a democratic governor
did the nice and quiet someone
right away
so wanting to know about it
did idea is the day my past
and new new law
bucket that's that's the law saying hey you know what that would change their
mind
uh... we're you go back to having the governor no point uh...
senators that's too much and i don't know
even under these circumstances where we desperately need that sixty of both
i was saying no
that's not the right way to go
but they've come up with a compromise that i can live with
now began in this case i have a greek
kinder with what the democrats are saying about health care reform sos easy
for me to dri
understand you know where i'm coming from and in my perspective
let's see if it makes sense to you
uh... they say
the governor
can appoint someone
until they have the special election
one aol point someone
in that time period in every enormous advantage fifty-one in that specialize
in missouri ready
the senator from massachusetts
and that's not really fair and i agree that that's not fair
so they're saying is
appoint someone
that promises that he definitely will not run
uh... when the special election comes up
so you have a center until a special election
you have a fair election i didn't forty five days from now
then you have the new senator for massachusetts
i think that's a compromise that makes a lot of sense
and you know what if they had a republican governor
now i would pay to have another republican
in that
set in those hundred forty five days
planned that sensible
because you need a senator from the state
now look what happened with calm enough right now because of the diversity
rations
but they didn't have a senator for six months
now this they were figuring out who once they would have been an appointment
in the interim anyway but as a general principle i think i i'm comfortable with
this
now as to who should be
a guy who's
privileged done with politics
so will not run again in that special election or or other what's coming up
for the senate massachusetts and a fairly well-known democrat
and idea
mike dukakis
aqaba
erase it with a lot
uh... for dukakis in their abroad in forty five days oak we take a position
part go go go honey love that decision in the co
does made
uh... backing shark to a charged with that
havin fun back in the south
uh... an excess is done with politics and he's a respected democrat from that
state
demolish shake-up
was made up
now they got a pass into law than divall patrick s take someone
and then there's whole budget politics as to who's gonna actually run a hundred
forty-five years later
but that's a different issue
uh... that is what i do to be might just resolution of this issue
now that you all know massachusetts ice whom it's done and we can move forward
and not
merciful
and whatnot works
covered just handing out these just solution